Re: guess the old studio numbers

Well, I never found him boring but I guess you must have a reason for saying that! - last time I spoke to him over the phone which was a long time ago I found him most insightful! - As I do you too...

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:36 pm

by Albert H

I think that it was Dave Fuller who nicknamed him "Boring Barry", and it sort of stuck!

I found a tape last week from the early 80s of "Radio Red Flag" that was broadcast on a May Day Bank Holiday. It was a very funny spoof - on Medium Wave - "the medium of the proletariat - none of that elitist FM stuff" - as "London's First Socialist Radio Station".

One DJ claimed that "I've just been voted behind the microphone for the next hour" and it was very well put together with some excellent lefty choices of music!

Re: guess the old studio numbers

i will make it easy they use to share the same flat with another station ( if the rumours are true ? ) and london based
kool & rush
1 was in the kitchen and the other in front room
good old days of radio

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:15 am

by Albert H

We had a Soul station and a Pop & Rock station using the same house (on top of a very high hill) to broadcast from up in Yorkshire (in the early 80s). The two transmitters were at either end of the loft, with aerials on each end of the house roof. The studios were in nearby houses, about five doors apart. Both studios fed their rigs by cables buried through the gardens. I don't think that either station was raided there, but the set-up lasted for one Christmas and New Year.

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:14 am

by SamTheDog

01 300 3500 Nice sidcup number

Also on the same turf... 01 300 1234

Re: guess the old studio numbers

Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:58 am

by Albert H

Sam, was 01 300 1234 a phone box? I seem to vaguely remember a couple of good consecutive numbers in phone boxes next to each other in either Hurst Road or Penhill Road.....